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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book that introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader from writer Theresa Thorn and illustrator Noah Grigni. Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between. This sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others. With child-friendly language and vibrant art, It Feels Good to Be Yourself provides...
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as social). While trans people share many common experiences, there is immense diversity within...
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Series
Publisher
A Kids Book About, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pronouns are a meaningful part of identifying who we are. We can't know someone's pronouns just by looking at them or knowing their name, so it's important to ask! This book encourages kids AND grownups to get uncomfortable, learn new things, make mistakes, and choose to grow. It's not about always getting it right, but it is about being loving and continuous in our effort."--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gender is all around us. Beliefs about gender impact our jobs, families, schools, religions, laws, politics, relationships, sports, clothes, and so much more. Gender permeates almost every aspect of our lives as humans. Although this book is part of a series called "What Everyone Needs to Know," it would be impossible to cover everything known about gender in one book, and, since gender is something we all have in common and at the same time all...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon's office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests. Ben, Lucas, Parker, and Nadia wish to feel more comfortable in their bodies; three of them are also taking testosterone so that others recognize them as male. Following them over the course of a year, Stein shows how members...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of transgender and gender nonconforming people, with a focus on those who identified in other than a straightforward binary fashion; on communities in West Africa, Asia, and among Native Americans; and on cross-dressing in World War I prison camps and in entertainment--Publisher's description.
"Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of...
Author
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An informative and project-filled book for middle graders to explore the meaning and history behind LGBTQ rights movements, including biographies of key figures in gender and gay/lesbian history, the context behind today's transgender 'bathroom wars' and dozens of activities and research ideas for perspectives and further learning."--Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This affirming and inclusive photographic picture book offers a celebratory and informative look at kids and their wide-ranging gender identities. With the permission of their parents, the children were recorded and transcribed by authors Shelley Rotner and Gwen Agna as they were photographed."--
11) A kid like Jake
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A Brooklyn couple has always known that their four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, the couple is forced to rethink their roles as parents and spouses.
"...It is profound in its simplicity and truthfulness about what real fights sound like and what real lives look like."--Associated Press.
"Director Silas...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 most influential teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
Author
Publisher
Imprint Academic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Hidden Agender, Gerard Casey develops a timely and provocative defence of free speech and toleration against the transgenderist ideology that has infiltrated so much of the media, the political establishment and the law.Opposing ideas, not individuals, Hidden Agender provides a compelling critique of the transgender ideologists and trans activists, and the new reactionary form of legal intolerance of our right to free thought and free speech.As...
15) Like a boy but not a boy: navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness,...
16) Ballet kids
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Thomas wants to be a ballet kid! He and his friends meet at the dance studio to take lessons from Mr. Elliot, their ballet instructor. The children stand at the barre and practice their feet positions--first position, second position-as well how to plie and releve. And then it's time to saute, or jump! Finally, the ballet kids get to choose their costumes for the Winter Show where they are performing The Nutcracker. What will Thomas choose?
17) Sirenas
Author
Publisher
Kókinos
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
El día en que Julián vio a tres fascinantes mujeres disfrazadas de sirena todo cambió para él. No podía pensar en otra cosa que no fuera disfrazarse, él también, de sirena. ¿Pero qué diría la abuela?
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ever wonder what "nonbinary" or "gender nonconforming" really means? Why would someone choose to identify that way? And how the heck do you use "they/them" pronouns for a singular person - isn't it supposed to be plural? This charming and disarming guide promises to unpack all these questions and more, with a fun, visual infographic approach"--
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
My Own Way is a poem and a picture book that introduces very young children to the wonder of gender diversity. Why feel limited to his or hers, blue or pink, football or ballet?
20) Homebody
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, from harrowing haircuts and finally the right haircut to the intersection of gender identity and...
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